Category Archives: Kate!Goddess

Here’s Kate Bush’s response on THAT interview: I read some articles that included a number of inaccuracies and usually I don’t respond. However I do feel I need to address one story which came from a phone interview I did two years ago. I was very disappointed that the use of a quote out of […]

At this point, I’m deliberately searching for cover versions to complete the full set of songs from Hounds of Love/The Ninth Wave. I’ll be honest: I don’t like the distorted and rather strained lead vocal in this one, and I don’t think this adds a lot to the original version. But what can you do […]

Some ideas are obvious in hindsight. Translating “Mother Stands for Comfort” into Chinese is one of them – it has always sounded vaguely East Asian to me, anyway. This is apparently an all-YouTube collaboration that took two years to complete. “Mother Stands for Comfort” was the only track on Side A of Hounds of Love […]

Covers of “Under Ice” are just like busses: you think they don’t exist, then suddenly two show up all at once. This version by Swedish singer Alice Genberg updates the original with a 2013-era sound palette but doesn’t otherwise do an awful lot with it. That’s not necessarily a bad thing though. Genberg’s voice adds […]

Oh my God, this one made my jaw drop. “Waking the Witch” in its original form on Hounds of Love is a completely artificial construction, all Fairlight and multi-tracking and slowed down tape. Then in 2014, I stumble upon this, uploaded to YouTube while I was not working on this series: one man with an […]

I’ve featured Theo Bleckmann before in this series, very early on, but it’s been three years, and as he did a whole project and album around the songs of Kate Bush, it was inevitable that he’d get featured again. This live recording combines “And Dream of Sheep” and “Under Ice” in a similar atmospheric form […]

Via The Homeground and Katebush News and Info Forum. Of the 11 songs on the Hounds of Love album proper, 7 8 9 have been performed live by artists who aren’t Kate Bush (only one has been performed live by Kate herself, but that may change). I am still looking for “The Big Sky”, “Under […]

You may have heard the increasingly persistent rumours that Kate Bush will do something for the Olympics closing ceremony on Sunday, August 12. Fans have been going mental over it, but if they’re anything like me, they’ll have mixed feelings about how it all works out. Kate Bush has only performed live a few times […]

So er, this was on UK The Voice. Kate Bush covers have been turning up on talent shows every once in a while. This is the best one I’ve seen in a talent show context yet, even in its abridged form clocking in at 2:09 including the surrounding video jingles. In fact, it got praise […]

With only three days to go before the Dutch release of Kate Bush’s next album, 50 Words for Snow, I’d better hurry up and get this review out. Seven months is plenty of time to write a considered review; I’ve played the album or its individual songs about 20 times during that period, which is […]